Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 13:43:54 01/15/02
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On January 15, 2002 at 16:31:44, John Hatcher wrote: >I just installed a new video card and, quite unexpectedly, I found that all my >chess engines (using the Fritz interface) are reporting significantly higher >knps during analysis - in the range of 50% faster knps. > >The video upgrade was a modest one - from onboard INTEL AGP (8mb shared) to a >ATI Xpert 128 (16mb). The computer is a 333mhz Celeron with 294MB memory. > >Does this make any sense? How does upgrading video increase knps of a chess >engine? Does it? > My guess: your system was being artificially slowed down by your slow video subsystem, essentially reducing your CPU speed. You've removed (or reduced) that problem so your CPU can better attain its true speed.
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